Jim McCarty recalls Eric Clapton’s “quite unhappy” time with the Yardbirds

As drummer for the Yardbirds — the only one in the British band’s history, in fact — Jim McCarty spent six years during the ’60s staring at the backsides of three of the greatest guitarists in rock…

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